MP takes ALP reins

First-term MP Rebecca White has been elected president of the Tasmanian ALP.

Ms White will chair the party's administrative committee which plays a role in pre-selecting candidates and oversees the party's financial workings.

She will also be in charge of running the party's state conference, where policy platforms are debated.

The 29-year-old has vowed to reunite the Parliamentary Labor Party with the party's rank and file.

The Lyons MHA also believes she is in a unique position to turn around the party's wavering popularity.

"We need to do better at encompassing what our members on the ground have to say and how we develop policy and it's certainly going to be one of my core tasks."

"I think there'll be times when we will have to look at what we're doing and whether it reflects what the members want us to do and I'm not scared to say that I'll be able to do that in the party room and also publicly if need be, to draw us back to where we should be.

"I think that we need to make sure that we are relevant to the community here in Tasmania," she said.

It is the first time all Labor members have been able to directly elect their president.